Research Guides: #Economics: Data &amp; Statistics

United States

Polling the Nations (access ends July 31, 2026)
Access polls from respected news outlets, universities, and research organizations on thousands of timely topics—from climate change and elections to health care, economics, and popular culture. Includes over 750,000 poll questions from 1986 to today, with results you can view as bar graphs, pie charts, or raw data.

Available for the 2025–26 academic year as a pilot, so explore the resource and share your thoughts; fill out the feedback form.

BEA: Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEA's economists produce some of the world's most closely watched statistics, including U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). They do state and local numbers, too, plus foreign trade and investment stats and industry data.
DataWeb: U.S. Trade & Tariff Data (US International Trade Commission)
Trade info: you'll have to build a query about what data you want reported over what time period (can choose annual or monthly), what commodities, and other options.
Tariff info: preexisting data sets are available.
Familiarity with NCAIS and/or HTS industry codes will help you navigate, but they have resources to figure those out, too.

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DataWeb web site maintenance activities are scheduled every Wednesday from 5:30 PM Eastern Time to 8:30 PM Eastern Time. Site is unavailable during this time.
Economic Indicators
Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly publication is prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee. It provides economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, federal finance, and international statistics.
FRED Economic Data
From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Download, graph, and track 793,000 US and international time series from 104 sources.
Green Book (House Ways and Means Committee)
Presents background material and statistical data on the major entitlement programs and other activities within the Committee's jurisdiction. Over the decades, the Green Book has become a valuable resource and standard reference on American social policy.

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Provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.
NationMaster
Find market sizing and trends on any sector, in any country.
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
Private, nonpartisan organization that facilitates investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates research findings to academics, public and private-sector decision-makers, and the public by posting more than 1,200 working papers and convening more than 120 scholarly conferences, each year.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
(Bureau of Labor Statistics) Find information on hundreds of jobs such as earnings, working conditions, job prospects, training, education, and more.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Longest running longitudinal household survey in the world tracking a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States.

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Information on these individuals and their descendants has been collected continuously, including data covering employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, philanthropy, education, and numerous other topics.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
US economy data, including unemployment and other economic indicators.
USA Trade Online (Census Bureau)
Requires creating a free account. Build a query to get data about US imports and exports.

International

Census Bureau: International Trade
Source for U.S. export and import statistics and responsible for issuing regulations governing the reporting of all export shipments from the United States.
CIA World Factbook
World maps, individual country maps, and regional maps prepared by the US Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US government officials, as country information.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data Home Page
Search or browse data by country or economic indicator; view data tables.
NationMaster
Find market sizing and trends on any sector, in any country.
OECD Data
Provides data from the 38 OECD member countries which are countries committed to democracy and to improving their economies. Data on other nations is also available on this site.
Penn World Table
Database (in form of a downloadable Excel file) with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2017.
The World Bank: Data Bank
Analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.